Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions

Who Owns Death? Capital Punishment, the American Conscience, and the End of Executions image
ISBN-10:

038079246X

ISBN-13:

9780380792467

Released: Jan 22, 2002
Publisher: Harper-perennial
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
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Description:

In this timely book, Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchell investigate the mindsets of individuals involved in the death penalty -- including prison wardens, prosecutors, jurors, religious figures, governors, judges, and relatives of murder victims -- and offer a textured look at a system that perpetuates the longstanding American habit of violence.

Richly rewarding and meticulously researched, Who Owns Death? explores the history of the death penalty in the United States, from hanging to lethal injection, and considers what this search for more "humane" executions reveals about us as individuals and as a society... and what the future of the death penalty holds for us all.


























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